Know Your Kindred – Toby

Name:  Toby
Clan:  Nosferatu
Generation: 10th
Embraced:  1988

Toby was a crack computer whiz, who prided himself on being able to hack his way into any network.  Toby was too good infact.  His talents attracted the attention of a Nosferatu named Oswald, who contacted Toby online and paid him to perform various illegal tasks.  Toby was unaware of Oswald’s true nature and often did not know whose computer Oswald was paying him to hack into.

It all came to an end when Toby was attacked in his home by the Melanesian Liberation Army, someone Oswald had paid him to hack.   As Toby laid dying on the floor Oswald appeared and Embraced Toby.

The transformation was horrific, but nothing compared to Toby’s new looks.  He was a monster.  He broke all the mirrors in his home and moved his equipment to a warehouse near the open sewer ducts.  He could not stand for anyone to see him now.

The Nosferatu of the city were good to Toby, but Toby felt they only stopped by to feel better about themselves.  There was only one visitor who Toby liked.  He we a Brujah anarch named “Honest Abe” and unlike the others, Toby’s looks did not concern him.  Toby started working for the anarchs in secret, often hacking into government computers for Abe.

Toby is fearful that the local prince will find out, so Toby takes special precautions not to be discovered.  He has used his computer to change the city’s records so his warehouse is untouched.

Toby is a chubby person; fat hangs off him like multiple balloons growing from his flesh.  He cannot wear a shirt and will not get one tailored for fear of letting someone measure him.  His face is a wasteland of acne scars and his pimples ooze continually. He wipes his face with old rags, which he then throws into the sewers, as he is unable to clean them.

– Source:  The Anarch Cookbook, pg 82-83.  DC By Night, pg 63-64.